France confirms that Matrix (and Riot) is the basis for their upcoming secure communication app for official government use, and will be 100% FOSS! Exciting times :D
https://matrix.org/blog/2018/04/26/matrix-and-riot-confirmed-as-the-basis-for-frances-secure-instant-messenger-app
@howl hopefully that's the story of how a government forced us to make damn sure Matrix can scale successfully to government-scale levels ;P
nothing more excited than becoming assimilated into the state
@zeezeemoomoo @matrix the state is using a foss technology, and will make public servants abandon proprietary software... And Vector probably gets tons of money for it! I don't see how this is anything but good. Matrix is a needed piece in the Foss puzzle
@zeezeemoomoo pretty sure we're not getting assimilated here :P
.@matrix the switch to using non-commercial technologies is the best evidence that Macron's government is probably not corrupt. Nobody would believe a FOSS project bribed the them to be chosen as a contractor :-)
@matrix Esta noticia es la caaaañññaaaaaaa.....
@gabriel
por una parte @matrix
es "equivalente" a #activitypub u #ostatus aquí . Es, por así decirlo, el protocolo e infraestructura lógica necesaria. Esto es sólo una analogía para comprenderlo.
En su FAQ explican todo en términos claros con enlaces técnicos https://matrix.org/docs/guides/faq.html#how-secure-is-this
#Matrix no retiene ni almacena datos, los gestores "malosos" de un servidor podrían hacerlo igual que uno de #xmpp o aquí mismo.
Be careful.
@mangeurdenuage we are. so far it looks good though :)
@matrix
This is crazy indeed! I'm quite surprised, although the French public sector has some history of using Free Software, that such still geeky FOSS is being deployed here!
@matrix Félicitations!
Jokes aside, awesome news! Awesome to see that federated/decentralised software is becoming more prominent